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    <title>Umbreon ex Prismatic Evolutions pop report: a wall of nines</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/umbreon-ex-prismatic-evolutions-pop-report/</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Umbreon ex Prismatic Evolutions pop report: half of all graded copies land PSA 9, the gem rate sits under 30 percent, and the 10 pays 4.6 times raw.</description>
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    <title>Shadowless Charizard pop report: 58 tens, and that is the whole story</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/shadowless-charizard-pop-report/</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Shadowless Charizard pop report: why 14,000 plus submissions have produced only 58 PSA 10s, the worst gem rate of any Base Set Charizard print.</description>
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    <title>Pikachu Illustrator pop report: 56 grade events, one perfect ten</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/pikachu-illustrator-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/pikachu-illustrator-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Pikachu Illustrator pop report: 39 awarded copies, 56 PSA grade events, exactly one PSA 10, and why the census overstates how many actually exist.</description>
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    <title>Moonbreon pop report: 21,000 PSA 10s and the price will not budge</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/moonbreon-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/moonbreon-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The moonbreon pop report explained: Umbreon VMAX alt art's real PSA 10 population, its 69 percent gem rate, and why a huge pop never crashed the price.</description>
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    <title>Lugia alt art pop report: the most graded card in Silver Tempest</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/lugia-alt-art-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/lugia-alt-art-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Lugia V alt art pop report: 46,000 plus graded, 25,000 PSA 10s, a 55 percent gem rate, and how to stop confusing card 186 with the 185 full art.</description>
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    <title>Giratina V alt art pop report: more nines than tens, and a 4x price gap</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/giratina-v-alt-art-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/giratina-v-alt-art-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Giratina V alt art pop report: why PSA 9s outnumber 10s on Lost Origin's chase card, the 40 percent gem rate, and what the near black foil does to grades.</description>
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    <title>Felt hat Pikachu pop report: the biggest census in Pokemon, still climbing</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/felt-hat-pikachu-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/felt-hat-pikachu-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The felt hat Pikachu pop report: the Van Gogh promo's PSA 10 population, why it became the most graded Pokemon card ever, and what the 43 percent gem rate means.</description>
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    <title>Charizard ex 151 pop report: a hundred thousand grades, one in four gems</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/charizard-ex-151-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/charizard-ex-151-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Charizard ex 151 pop report: the SIR's PSA 10 population, a 28 percent English gem rate against 84 percent for the Japanese print, and the grading math.</description>
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    <title>Celebrations Charizard pop report: the reprint that actually gems</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/celebrations-charizard-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/celebrations-charizard-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Celebrations Charizard pop report: 35,000 plus PSA 10s of the anniversary reprint, a 59 percent gem rate, and what that census does to the price.</description>
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    <title>Base Set Charizard PSA 10 pop: 488 tens from a hundred thousand tries</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/base-set-charizard-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/base-set-charizard-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The Base Set Charizard PSA 10 pop, live: 488 gems out of 104,000 plus graded, why unlimited copies almost never gem, and what the grading math really pays.</description>
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    <title>1st Edition Base Set Charizard pop report: why the 10s stay scarce</title>
    <link>https://better-pop.com/blog/1st-edition-base-set-charizard-pop-report/</link>
    <guid>https://better-pop.com/blog/1st-edition-base-set-charizard-pop-report/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The PSA pop report for 1st Edition Base Set Charizard: current PSA 10 population, a gem rate near 2 percent, what keeps the 10s scarce, and the real grading math.</description>
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